[zepto]

The repair industry in this case is hostile to the environment. They are incentivized to want computers to break so that they can sell repair services.

It turns out that soldering parts in place makes them less likely to break than a socket whose connections can oxidize or come loose.

The tiny number of devices that can’t be repaired because of soldered components, is dwarfed by the number of devices that never broke in the first place because of soldered components.

[alacombe]

> It turns out that soldering parts in place makes them less likely

You've obvious never heard of MBP BGA chip solder ball cracking and rendering the whole device useless...

[zepto]

I didn’t say they never failed. Just that they fail less frequently.

In any case, solder ball cracking results from process issues and is a solved problem: https://www.pcbcart.com/article/content/reasons-for-cracks-i...

Certain not something that would be improved with sockets.